disobedient
Adjective
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Not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority (synset 301618017)
"disobedient children"also:
- incorrigible - impervious to correction by punishment
- defiant, noncompliant - boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
- bad - having undesirable or negative qualities
- difficult, unmanageable - hard to control
- obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate - tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
- intractable - not tractable; difficult to manage or mold
tells us about: obedience - the trait of being willing to obeysimilar to:- contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward - resistant to guidance or discipline
- fractious, recalcitrant, refractory - stubbornly resistant to authority or control
- froward, headstrong, self-willed, wilful, willful - habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
- recusant - refusing to submit to authority
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Unwilling to submit to authority (synset 302338754)
"unruly teenagers"similar to: insubordinate - not submissive to authoritysame as: unruly
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